Andres Roots is a slide guitarist, songwriter and bandleader based in Tartu, Estonia. Combining pre-war blues and swing with 1960's rock, his music has received airplay on five continents and featured in TV series and films, including the award-winning "Lonely Island" (2012), directed by the Berlinale-decorated Peeter Simm.

Roots has toured in the UK, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden and Finland, played with Honeyboy Edwards (USA) and Tuomari Nurmio (FIN), and opened for the likes of Dr. Feelgood (UK) and Otis Grand (USA). The 2015 Trad.alt.winter Tour saw the press in Finland, Sweden and Estonia greet the former Bullfrog Brown guitarist as the King of Estonian Blues.

In April 2016, Roots' latest release "Roots Music" entered the Estonian album chart at #1 - a rare feat for a semi-instrumental blues album, especially one that's only available on vinyl. Released to celebrate Roots' 40th birthday and 20 years on stage, "Roots Music" is a compilation LP of studio recordings made in 2010-2014. It is also the first-ever gramophone record manufactured in Estonia - while the first Estonian sound recording was released 115 years earlier, it wasn't until 2016 that the country got its own Vinyl Plant.

Preferring a guitar-and-drums duo format that highlights his "excellent slide technique complimented by great chording and simultaneously executed skillful basslines" (Sirp), with "the sound made with just drums and one guitar filling the stage more powerfully than your average rock band" (IDeeJazz), Roots also performs solo and continues to collaborate with harpists Ismo Haavisto (FIN) and Steve Lury (UK) in a more traditional blues vein.